Monocytes, along with other types of white blood cells, are a vital part of your immune system. Learn what it means if your monocyte level is high.

Monocytes: What does a high monocyte count mean and what does having one mean for your health? Learn more in this comprehensive guide.

Microscopy of monocytes, capturing the virus (in blue) in tumor vessels. The arrow points to several localized virus particles on the cell surface.

They added patient-derived monocytes to a custom-made chamber where they could capture microscopy videos of the cells’ movements in real time. 5 After applying the CCL-2 ligand to the opposite end of ...

In this article, we focus on two related types of immune cell – the monocyte and the macrophage. We discuss what monocytes and macrophages are, how they are generated, their functions in the body and ...

The accrual of cholesterol-laden macrophages in the atherosclerotic plaque is a critical event that precedes plaque rupture. The guidance molecule netrin-1 mediates this accrual in a mouse model of ...

Certain brain regions of healthy old mice and humans harbor monocyte-derived microglia. The transcriptome of some monocyte-derived microglia was identical to that of yolk sac-derived microglia.

Absolute monocytes are a measurement of a particular type of white blood cell. Learn what they do and what a high or low measurement means.

For the transcriptome analysis Alexander Mildner controls sorted monocytes under the microscope.